Only the direct descendants of the Monarch in line to the Throne,The Prince of Orange and his children in our case,will bear the title Prince/Princess.

The children of the other sons of the Monarch will bear the title Count/Countess.They will cease to be members of the Royal Family,
(as that will consist of the then King and Queen and their children,as well as the previous Monarch in case HM abdicates),as soon
as Alexander will become King,but ofcourse they will remain members of the Royal House.

This measure was taken to cut government responsibility for the wonderfull ever expanding Royal Family and still counting.....

Thanks for the explanation. That's a good way of cutting down the size of the Royal Family.

pictures looks nice and little luana always so sweet and smilings like her cousin amilia i would agree with posts!

im sure HM Queen Beatrix will be wonderful grandmother and caring lots of their grandchildren.

im sure you says on posts about christening but zaria will be have christening will be on December 2006 maybe but im not sure when but Friso or Mabel will have discussing about christening like luana did but zaria is less old but we have wait till big baby.

No no Olga,the pics are taken in the London residence of the couple.:)

Lucien, you sure about that? In the interview with Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, which appeared last spring, it was mentioned that the couple live in a town house in London's Notting Hill, on one of those famous 'mews' streets. The houses there are hardly palatial in size, and in the interview the journalist remarked that Friso's was indeed rather modest. In addition, it was mentioned the couple favored post-modern, mid-last-century furniture, and some of the accompanying pictures proved that.

On these new pictures with Zaria however, we get a glimpse of a room that's definitely very spacey, with a formal-ish theme in terms of furniture going on. Not at all matching the impression I got from the pictures and content of that newspaper's interview last spring.

My take is that perhaps without telling us, Friso's family's embarked on Huis Ten Bosch. Would make all the sense in the world given that these very weeks, the queen needs to be on her post because of the political crisis in her country, what with the cabinet that needs to be formed within the next week by her bud Ruud Lubbers and co. So my sense is that these pictures were taken in the Netherlands.

beautiful fotos, the photo of the family is the firstpicture of friso with luana in his aarms!
great!

__________________Today the world has embraced new royal Princesses in the form of Mary of Denmark and Maxima of the Netherlands. But it's questionable whether even these hugely popular, increasingly glamorous future Queens will ever capture the world's imagination in the same way as Diana.As Mario acknowledges: "She really was a true Princess".-www.theroyalist.net-

Lucien, you sure about that? In the interview with Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, which appeared last spring, it was mentioned that the couple live in a town house in London's Notting Hill, on one of those famous 'mews' streets. The houses there are hardly palatial in size, and in the interview the journalist remarked that Friso's was indeed rather modest. In addition, it was mentioned the couple favored post-modern, mid-last-century furniture, and some of the accompanying pictures proved that.

On these new pictures with Zaria however, we get a glimpse of a room that's definitely very spacey, with a formal-ish theme in terms of furniture going on. Not at all matching the impression I got from the pictures and content of that newspaper's interview last spring.

My take is that perhaps without telling us, Friso's family's embarked on Huis Ten Bosch. Would make all the sense in the world given that these very weeks, the queen needs to be on her post because of the political crisis in her country, what with the cabinet that needs to be formed within the next week by her bud Ruud Lubbers and co. So my sense is that these pictures were taken in the Netherlands.

HM did "hop" over to London to see her sons newly extended family,it's just a less then an hour flight,but I understand were you 're coming from.

(Btw,I love the painting covering the wall,and the photo's are absolutely fantastic .

I know I am chiming in late...but what great pics.Luana is such a cutie. Zaria with all that hair. Beatrix looks so happy and relaxed. And Mabel...looks wonderful! Such a glow of contentment. And Friso...well..he looks nice too! Happy with his girls.

Congrats to Mabel and Friso. I didn't realize they still live in London. Do they still work at a bank? Beatrix' family is growing by leaps and bounds!

Prince Friso ceased to work for Goldman&Sachs,and is now co-director of TNO Space in Delft,The Netherlands,a dutch governmental research insitute.The Prince has a degree in Aeronautics.As that is a part-time job he fills his space with many other of his interests,one of them being a participant in low-cost airline WIZZ.

Princess Mabel is director EU Affairs of the Open Society Institute,and has her base in London.